Opening. The port city dedicates a cultural space and an exhibition to the versatile artist, one of the most unique creators in the region
Ceramicist, painter, sculptor, creator of a unique and recognizable world at first sight… Dora Catarineu was all this and much more. The one who for years stood out as one of the most important figures of Cartagena’s art scene received her city’s tribute yesterday with the appointment of a cultural room and the exhibition ‘A Dora’.
In this way Cartagena does justice to an artist who for decades shone in the cultural life of the port city and who was part of an advance party of, among others, the late and remembered Paco Martín, who breathed a breath of modernity and renewal.
A dozen paintings and three sculptures are featured in this exhibition curated by Juan García Sandoval and Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta, which was inaugurated in the room on Calle Ronda, number 9. The event was attended by the Mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo; the honoree, accompanied by her relatives; and other authorities and artists of the city.
Teodora Sofía Catarineu Guillén, better known as Dora Catarineu, was born in Cartagena in 1946 in a family with an artistic tradition, with a painter mother and a lawyer father, but fond of art. She is the granddaughter of the poet and playwright Ricardo Catarineu, who was associated with the ’98 generation.
He studied at the School of Technical Architects in Seville and did liberal studies in painting and sculpture in Seville and Reus. He has made about thirty individual exhibitions and participated in more than twenty collective exhibitions. His paintings are hung in various places, such as the City Hall Museum of Kassel, the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo or the Telesferic in Barcelona.
Dora Catarineu was the author of the poster for the international festival La Mar de Músicas in 2005, the year in which the Turkey Special was held. That same year he exhibited ‘Turquesa’.
The Regional Museum of Modern Art (MURAM) celebrated him in 2018 ‘Anthology’ to showcase his extensive artistic career, an exhibition that allowed to understand his work processes and his unceasing artistic quest. That exhibition collected three decades of the artist’s work linked to formalism.
Source: La Verdad
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